WASHINGTON – A White House scandal lawyer says she apologized to First Lady Hillary Clinton for blabbing about their secret chats to supersleuth reporter Bob Woodward, but claims the reporter tricked her.

Lawyer Jane Sherburne said Woodward betrayed her by including her “off-the-record” comments about the aspiring New York senator in his new book.

Sherburne also says Woodward’s account of an emotional conversation between Sherburne and a sobbing Clinton is wrong.

In Woodward’s new book, “Shadow – Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate,” there’s passage where . Clinton, in a conversation with Sherburne, reacts to a Newsweek column that accuses the First Lady of destroying the lives of her friends.

“It’s killing me to let this happen … That’s not who I am. I take care of people,” the book has Clinton telling Sherburne, who was then her White House scandal lawyer.

Sherburne acknowledged she talked to Woodward, on background and off the record, about that chat with Hillary. Sherburne said she doesn’t remember it the way it appears in the book.

“The dialogue that Woodward describes as in my mouth and her’s was not the dialogue. [It] does not resemble what I recall of the conversation,” Sherburne said in an under-oath deposition taken by Judicial Watch lawyer Larry Klayman.

Klayman interviewed Sherburne on Monday as part of his lawsuit against the White House for ordering up FBI files on Republicans who worked in prior administrations.

Sherburne, who no longer works at the White House, said she sent Clinton a letter of apology and intends to talk to Woodward. Woodward, a reporter for The Washington Post, and Sherburne didn’t return calls yesterday, and the White House won’t comment on the book.

“I told her [in the letter] that I was very sorry if I had caused her any embarrassment, that my intentions were good, [but] my judgment to believe in Woodward’s professionalism was not,” Sherburne said.

Sherburne said she told Clinton that Woodward “had decided to put [the conversation] in my mouth and that [Clinton] well knew that the dialogue was made up.”

Sherburne said she confided in Woodward for several hours in two face-to-face meetings last summer. She said she never broke her lawyer-client privilege with Clinton – partly because the courts ruled that, as a government lawyer, she didn’t have any such privilege to protect.

Sherburne said she got a call from Woodward about two weeks ago, just before the book was excerpted in The Washington Post. She said Woodward told her he’d “confirmed” much of the “background” and “off the record” information he’d gotten from her.

“He said he had decided to go ahead and put it in my mouth,” Sherburne said. “When I asked him what that meant … I believe he said that it wasn’t anything that I needed to worry about because the conversation [between Hillary and Sherburne] was so famous.”